Beyond Anxiety : Curiosity, Creativity and Finding Your Life's Purpose - Martha Beck

Beyond Anxiety

Curiosity, Creativity and Finding Your Life's Purpose

By: Martha Beck

Paperback | 14 January 2025 | Edition Number 1

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From bestselling author, life coach, and sociologist Martha Beck comes a new path to overcoming anxiety by awakening the creativity within.

Most of us assume that the key to overcoming anxiety is to think our way out of it. And for a while, it works. Meditation and mental exercises offer us relief, but there is always something - a work deadline, a family emergency, a particularly distressing newsbreak - that disrupts our sense of peace and sends us right back inside the same anxious spiral we've been trying to climb out of.

Is there a way to reduce our anxiety, not just in the moment, but in every moment after that?

After a lifetime of struggling with anxiety, Martha Beck studied just about everything there was to know about how to calm down. What she realised is that the analytical part of our brain - so valued in Western culture - is the same structure responsible for amping up anxiety. In other words, we cannot logic our way to relief. In Beyond Anxiety, she reveals that to find calm, we must activate an entirely different part of our brain, one responsible for curiosity, wonder, and, most of all, creativity.

Drawing on social science, Eastern wisdom, and the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Beck shows how to move from anxiety into purpose through the power of creativity. Using techniques tested first-hand on hundreds of clients, she teaches us how to activate the creativity spiral by approaching problems with a sense of curiosity, making pleasure a priority, and inviting play and spontaneity into our every day.

Anxiety does not have to keep us from finding our life's purpose. Beyond Anxiety invites us into a new way of being, one filled with greater abundance, joy and possibility.
Industry Reviews
I'm an anxious bunny. I opened this book hopeful but certain it wouldn't work. It worked. It freaking worked. The gold on these pages gave me some life back. Thank you, thank you, Martha Beck. You did it again! - Untamed

Martha has tackled a subject that is the true virus of our time: ANXIETY. And with her characteristic humor, brilliance, detective-level research skills, and unconventional thinking, she has discovered actual real-life solutions to this dreaded mental scourge. In doing so, she has once again brought light, hope, and a welcome sense of excitement to us all. - Big Magic

Beck provides exercises to practice a multilayered approach that led her to change how she related to both her inner and her outer worlds . . . I'm so grateful to Martha for showing us the way toward more courageous and connected lives.

Beck never lectures, never talks down, and doesn't spread doom and fear. Instead, she helps us engage with different parts of our nervous system where our own curiosity and creativity offer a pathway beyond anxiety. - Broken Open

Beck teaches us a crucial lesson about our negative emotions: the goal isn't to eradicate them, but to understand, learn, and grow from them. This shift can change your life. - Build the Life You Want

Beyond Anxiety is our era's timeliest book . . . These pages contain essential knowledge and innovative tools for anyone who hopes to thrive-and not merely survive-in an age of intensity. - The Underworld

A breakthrough book on understanding the profound connection between anxiety and the innate untapped creativity and purpose that beckons us all deep from within. A must read for your mental, emotional, and spiritual health. - The Self-Love Experiment

With her signature blend of science, compassion, and humour, Martha Beck upends every-

thing we thought we knew about anxiety and how to overcome it . . . I love this book! - Happy for No Reason

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